Re: Horace M. Hall at Blanchester, Ohio
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Re: Horace M. Hall at Blanchester, Ohio
Debra 11/30/12
Good luck on your search. Now you might be able to help me.
I have in my possession all the stuff handed down from the Hall side of my family. Included is an 1826 land grant to a Stephen Bowyer. The grant came out of the Vincennes, IN land office and has John Quincy Adams' signature on it. Adams was the last president to actually sign land grants. Jackson stopped the practice when he took office in 1829. In your research have you come across a Bowyer in the woodpile? Before everybody up and died on me, nobody told me why we had it. I think it comes from your branch of the tree. It might, however, come from the Willoughby side of the Horace Hall/Cora Willoughby marriage.
Nor did they tell me about the tin types. Among them is one of a soldier in what appears to me to be a Union uniform. Should be old Andrew Hall. Send me your email address and I will shoot you a copy. My email is [email protected]. Somewhere I have a civil war reunion ribbon from a reunion held in Lebanon Ohio.
Yes, it was Horace Hall i was calling a mean old cuss. I used to hear stories about him from my mother. Apparently as a very young man he ran off and headed west. There he worked for a time on a chuck wagon for cattle drives. My mother told me that in the mid 50s Horace was at Corliss' home in Dayton and they were all watching a movie about Billy the Kid. When it was over Horace gave a big Hrumph and said Billy the Kid was just a punk who used to beg food from chuck wagons and that he had had run ins with him. I dont know whether he was BSing or not. At the time he was living with Corliss but later moved into his own apartment. Once, while living with Corliss and at the age of 88, he was doing a roofing job but came home before noon and just sat on the sofa with a sour look on his face. Corliss' wife Jessie was concerned he was ill and asked if he was ok. Horace, who was not very talkative, finally blurted out "It's too hot to roof, the god damned shingles were melting." That is how mean a cuss he was. I have some of his tools. When he finally died in 1965 my father was the one who got the police to open his apartment in Lebanon where they found him and the apartment literally full of paperback westerns.
I have done fairly extensive research regarding the early settlement of Waynesville, Ohio. The Quakers who went there came out of the Bush River area of South Carolina and also out of the Haddonfield, New Jersey area. A farm in the family was home to the secretary of the Waynesville Friends when the Hicksite Schism came down in the late 1820s. His brother was also a lay leader of the congregation. One became a Hicksite and the other remained an orthodox Quaker. The brother who became the Hicksite had a son who became fairly famous. The son's name was Dr. John Evans. He went on to found Northwestern University in the town named after him, Evanston, IL. Before that he got the federal government to establish rules to prevent the spread of cholera in the late 30s early 40s. Went on to make a fortune in railroads in Chicago. Used a slick railroad lawyer in his business dealings who later appointed Evans territorial governor of Colorado in 1862 when that lawyer was elected President. Back home they stayed annoyed at him because he quit being a practicing Quaker. Interesting stuff...
Good luck!